Knollapalooza: Discussing Don Draper's Furniture

The Mid-Century Modernist does a nice job of it, the Awl makes a few notes on the turn-of-the-decade update from warm Copenhagen to cool Stockholm.

Shopping Guides! Mid Century Vintage in SF

Apartment Therapy Marketplace has put together a good by-neighborhood roundup of San Francisco's vintage furniture stores and galleries; How do I know it's good? They've included Therapy (unrelated to the site), a Mission District shop that I'd recommend most highly to all lovers of 20th century modern design. They've got an always-changing collection of cool furniture and other home goodies at prices that aren't ridiculous.

Found: Modernist Fantasy + Inspirational Memory

This NY Times piece focuses on an upcoming Sotheby's auction of the contents of Robert Isabell's West Village home after the death of its owner, the 57-year-old floral-designer-to-New-York's-elite. The designer's home held an incredible collection of mid-century furntiture and decorative art, carefully sourced for years and meticulously chosen to fit his vision of home. Neither opulent nor trendy, the objects that caught the designer's eye would often become desirable and expensive among tastemakers, collectors and cognoscenti years later.  Looking at the slideshow I sensed an odd familiarity in the images of the breathtaking hideaway that had the director of Sotheby’s 20th-century design department “simply blown away.”